Charlie Kirk Explains Why America Must Limit Green Cards and Prioritize American Students First

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[00:27] All right. So, uh, my question has to

[00:29] like pertain more to illegal immigration

[00:30] and, uh, like green cards and

[00:32] everything. Obviously, I got the Trump

[00:33] hat on. I agree with most of what you

[00:35] stand for, but I wanted to ask and have

[00:37] you like clarify obviously the border

[00:39] wall and deportations and everything are

[00:42] like necessary now, but what do you see

[00:44] as the future for like a policy to get

[00:46] people like my friend here that he's on

[00:48] a student visa now, his family was

[00:50] deported back to Mexico. How can someone

[00:53] like him get a green card and his

[00:55] family? Where do you see the government

[00:56] going with that and getting people green

[00:58] cards fairly instead of making When was

[01:00] your family deported? Recently. Two

[01:02] years ago. Oh, two years under Biden.

[01:04] Okay.

[01:06] Interesting. Um, so uh yeah, look, my my

[01:11] perspective might not win him over. I'll

[01:13] be perfectly honest. Uh I think we

[01:14] actually need to limit the amount of

[01:16] green cards for the time being. And I

[01:17] think any country would make the same

[01:19] decision. Our obligation needs to be to

[01:21] American students first and foremost to

[01:23] make sure that the people in this

[01:24] audience can own homes, have higher

[01:26] wages, and be stakeholders in their

[01:28] country. So, I might not win over your

[01:29] friend here and that's okay, but at

[01:31] least he can have understanding where

[01:32] I'm coming from. Every country should

[01:34] look after their own country first and

[01:36] foremost. And the problem is the pattern

[01:38] over the last 40 years is we have been

[01:40] overly generous to a detriment to

[01:42] ourselves. And just for an example,

[01:43] people in this audience, it is harder

[01:45] than ever for you guys to own a home, to

[01:47] get married, to have kids, to be able to

[01:49] achieve the American dream that your

[01:51] parents had. I'm not saying that green

[01:52] card holders are an expense to that. But

[01:54] if and one is just does Florida State

[01:56] have a computer engineering program?

[01:58] Maybe it doesn't or something similar,

[01:59] right? It does. For example, let's just

[02:01] take the H-1B program. I think it's

[02:03] wrong to import workers from foreign

[02:05] countries to compete against you guys as

[02:08] computer science engineering students

[02:10] where you guys should be given priority

[02:11] as American students above foreign

[02:13] students. And so I might not I might not

[02:15] win over your friend here. However, if

[02:17] we can then get back to a prosperous

[02:20] more um robust economic circumstance, we

[02:23] should always have a merit-based

[02:25] immigration policy. No illegal

[02:26] immigration, very limited legal

[02:28] immigration. That should be always

[02:30] merit-based. But for someone like him

[02:32] who's assimilating to America, he's

[02:33] gonna be here for four years. It's his

[02:35] second year here. He's already more

[02:37] American than most of the people I've

[02:39] met. How can we get someone like that? I

[02:42] I I do. What do you mean by that? He's

[02:44] very involved in American culture. He

[02:46] voted for Trump, obviously. You voted

[02:49] with a You voted with a green card. No,

[02:51] I didn't vote, but I was going to say,

[02:52] yeah, he was going to vote. He supported

[02:54] Trump. Yeah, I got it. Supported Trump.

[02:56] Yeah, I got it. But he's very patriotic.

[02:58] And I know you saw the protesters over

[03:00] there. They don't like America. Why are

[03:01] they here and he's not? Well, I mean,

[03:04] well, they they were raised here, so you

[03:06] have to have some social contract for

[03:07] being, you know, born here and keeping

[03:08] that together. I will say you make a

[03:10] good argument on the surface that there

[03:12] are some newcomers that come to America

[03:15] that tend to love the country more than

[03:17] its current inhabitants. That is a good

[03:19] argument. I will say though, as a broad

[03:21] rule, we need to have a hard and fast

[03:23] stop and say that number one, we have a

[03:26] mass assimilation problem. Number two,

[03:28] exceptions like your friend right here

[03:30] can and should and will be made through

[03:32] a merit-based immigration system. But

[03:34] for the time being, he is the exception,

[03:36] not the rule. Far too often, we have

[03:38] people like Elon Omar coming into the

[03:39] country that is showing, you know,

[03:41] discord and venom and ingratitude

[03:43] towards America. And I think we can both

[03:45] agree that we've had way too many

[03:47] people, foreigners coming into the

[03:49] country over the last couple of years in

[03:50] an unregulated, unruly fashion. And it's

[03:53] time to put American students and

[03:54] Americans first. Thank you very much.

[03:56] Appreciate it. Thank you.

[03:58] Yes, sir.